This is the "official" Bob cake, made by Sugar Butter Flour and served at DreamWorks yesterday to celebrate the movie's release. Fortunately Jessica G.'s hubby works there, which is why we get to share in the gelatinous joy.

Speaking of gelatinous, though, wouldn't it have been awesome if they'd made him completely out of Jello? Sure, I'd rather eat cake, too, but Bompass & Parr (creators of the infamous burger-on-a-donut) have some nifty "Jelly" creations, some of which even glow in the dark:

Cool, huh? Plus, slap an eyeball on that sucker and you've got yourself a Bob!

Heck, now I'm inspired to go make some blue jello mounds with eyeballs. Then I'll bring them to the IMAX theater, and chuck 'em at the candy-wrapper-crinkling, seat-kicking, cell-phone-answering, talking-the-ENTIRE-TIME pests who sit behind me. "Who's 3D now, jerk-faces? Huh? HUH? SHWA-POW! Bob in the face!"

Wow, that glow-jello is awesome! The Bob cake is pretty sweet as well, looks just like him - being a Saturday, I was expecting some horrible rendition, but I'm pleasantly surprised! Monsters vs. Aliens is a DreamWorks movie, though, not Pixar - just representing the art school nerdy demographic ;)

Much as I hate to admit it, my Mother was right: There is no place on earth that deserves to have blue food.I will admit the Blobby is sort of cute and that glow-in-the-dark Jello is cool and a half, but as food? No.

My husband is insisting upon seeing this one at the IMAX theatre for his birthday. He's 27. I'll have to listen to some crying and whining and talking during the movie. The kids'll probably be loud, too.

drgns4vr said... "Much as I hate to admit it, my Mother was right: There is no place on earth that deserves to have blue food." ***********************Hmmm. As I remember reading/hearing somewhere many moons ago, the reason the folks invented blue food coloring in the first place was BECAUSE there were no blue foods (blueberries aren't blue, so they don't count).Blue is cool. Blue is pretty! Blue evokes a lovely summer sky, or a languid, tropical sea...a dawn...a twilight...a kitten's eyes... We do BLUE because we CAN. (!!!)I have to respectfully disagree with your mother.WE THE PEOPLE deserve blue food.* hand on heart and tear in eye*I don't have a soapbox, so I have to stand on my son's case of blue Focus.>^~~^<

At the risk of sounding off-color, am I the only one to note that Bob looks startlingly like a condom with one eye and a big grin? It's a little unsettling. Also, puts me right off the notion of eating cake (and that takes a lot).

I'm a US ex-pat living in Australia (20 years now). Those pop-eyed sailor blobs are definitely frog-cakes which originated in Adelaide. http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=244Now you can put your hands over your ears (or eyes) and go "lalala things only happen in the US", but wouldn't you rather just eat the cake? :)

This has nothing to do with this post, but I'd just like to say that your site inspires me. Should the college thing work out, I could always go into grocery store cake decoration, as it seems that there is absolutely no talent or training required! (Though perhaps graduating high school makes me overqualified for the job.)

If you hate noise in the theater, don't see this one in 3D! We went to the first show Friday with our 5 kids and the theater was full, kids of all ages there with their parents. It was Awesome! No inappropriate noise, just lots of jumping and shouting out at the moment things are about to hit you in the head or land in your lap. I think the 3D is so fascinating to the kids, they pay attention to watch for the next thing coming at them. I love it!

No, madrobins, you're not the only one to have that off-color thought. Although, rather than a condom, I think Bob looks like a sex toy. Couple that with the fact that his name is BOB (aka, Battery Operated Boyfriend)....and, well....I refuse to believe that no one at Dreamworks made that connection.

I just talked to our chef here at Dreamworks/PDI and was told that Butter Sugar Flour did the cake(http://www.sugarbutterflour.com/) Not only did it look great, but the taste was fantastic; moist, rich, and a decent fondant on the outside.

Sugar Butter Flour - is that not the same company that made the famous Swastika wedding cake. Wow, they sure get around. I can understand why you took the famous wedding cake off if you have a relationship with the company. Shame.

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